Package-tie.



PATENTED MAR. 24, 1908.

T. BOYD. PACKAGE TIE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20, 1907.

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PA CKA GE-TIE Specification bf Letters Patent.

Patented arena 24, 1908.

Application filed September 20, 1907. Serial N 0. 393,836.

class designed for use .in the mail service for holding various kinds ofmail matter securely assembled. i

The object of the invention is to'provide an article of this characterwhich shall be.

simple and durable in construction, easy to which the binder shall be sosecured around a package of mail matter that its accidental loosening oruntying will be practically impossible, and in which, further, thecutting of tabs binder by the tie plate willbe obviate With the aboveand other objects in view,

as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood,-thesame consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts' of apackage tie, as will be hereinafter fully "described and-claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, andin which like characters of reference indicate correspond,

ing parts :-Figure 1 is a view in plan, ex-' hibiting the package tiesecured upon a package of mail matter. Fig. 2 is a perspective detailView of the tie plate and a portion of the binder. Fig. 3 'is atransverse sectional view taken on the.line 33'of Fig. 1, and

' looking in the direction of the arrow thereon.

The tie comprises a plate 1' of resilient metal, referably, though notof necessity, having a perimeter ap roximating been ado ted for thereason that it will be light an that irregular shaped pieces of sheetmetal may be utilized in its manufacture, and thus materially lessenthecost of its production. Furthermore, by imparting to the plate the shapedefined, there will be no sharp corners presented that might infiictinjury upon the erson using the device, or that might muti ate mailmatter. The plate is provided at what might be styled one corner with akey-hole shaped opening 2 in which is secured the binder 3 which, asusual, consists of a length of any suitable cord, and that engages theneck of'the opening.

a specifibinder to assume a proper position relatively The plate isprovided with three binder locking members or tongues 4, 5 and 6, that Iare formed by being starnped from the plate in the'usual manner, theslot of the'o ening 2 being disposedat right angles to the-l of thetongues 4 and 5, whereby to cause the to the matter being bundled. Thesetongues are transversely dished awayfrom the plate in order to preventcutting of the binder, and

tongues 4 and 5' are disposed in parallelism disposed relatively to thesaid ton lies and has its tip projected towards the neo *7 of the bellyin alinement with the inner edge of the tongue 5, although this notessential. By disposing the tongues in the manner shown, when the binderis being secured around the mail or other matter,- there wiii nointerference presented by the and positive engagement of the binderthere with, v In using the tie, the binder is first secured in the neckof the opening The mail matter having been properly arranged, the plateis pieced on. the .1 pper side of thepaclo age at about its center, andthe binder is then ,passed transversely around the back of the packageto its front, then booked in engagement with the tongue 6, thence is)assed longitudinaily along one end of the iront of the package andaround the back thereof, thence along the other end. of the front of thepackage, and hool zed into'euover thelatter tongue, and is finallyhooked it is firmly held. The locking of the binder is, however,effected at the tongue 5, as it will be seen that a bight or loop isformed in the binder at'this point. To free the binder from the package,the reverse of the above described operation is observed-that is to isay, the binder is disengaged from the into engagement with the tongue lby which ength are formed longitudinally on compound and have theiruipsprojecting in o posite directions, while the ,tongue 6 is ob iquelyopening 2, and its base or root 8 substangues to the rapid gagementwitlrthe tongue 5, thence passed I lit) -tirely relia tongues 4, 5 and6, whereupon the tie plate with the attached binder may readily beremoved. r

The improvements herein defined, While ,sim le in character, will bethoroughly effective for the purposes designed, and will result in theroduction of a practical and enb le form of package tie. vI claim:- 7 Apackage tie comprising a fiat plate havin projectingfrom one sidethereof a plura ity of transversely dished longitudinally curve-dtongues, two of which are disposed in parallelism and with their tipsprojecting in opposite directions, and a third lockin tongue disposedobliquely to the other two, t e plate bein provided with akeyhole-shaped orifice the s 01; of which is disposed at right angles'tothe two parallel tongues, and a binder secured THOMAS BOYD.

' Witnesses:

CHAsISMITH, W. H. AmswoR'rH.

